Uzodinma Iweala Quotes

Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

I like going back and writing fiction.

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.

Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure. I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself, and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

The things that I'm interested in directing are fiction, because then you're not married to a particular reality.

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.

The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

It never ceases to amaze me that readers who are willing to suspend their disbelief when it comes to the motivation of a vicious serial killer get high and mighty because I have put a coffee shop where there isn't one. Er... it's a novel. I made one up. I'm allowed to make stuff up. I'd go as far as to suggest that I make stuff up for a living.

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly written. What I enjoy about fiction - the great gift of fiction - is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.

Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.

My books aren't autobiographical.

As an SF writer, you've got the infinite toolkit of the writer at your disposal.

In fiction, you don't invent the events. What is imaginative about it is the consciousness: how you think about the events and how you present them. And that changes the nature of everything, and that is the attraction of writing fiction.

As a writer of fiction, you don't ever want to limit the characters you create to the life you've lived. That's insanity to me.

Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

As a writer of fiction, lying is the central thing to all books.

I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate.

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.